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YouTube defends video that falsely claims Sydney massacre survivor is ‘crisis actor’

A Google executive told an inquiry on Tuesday that a YouTube video that falsely claimed a wounded survivor of an antisemitic massacre in Sydney was a crisis actor blooded with makeup had met the platform’s standards and would remain online.

Google Australia manager Rachel Lord was testifying at a government inquiry into the spread of antisemitism in Australia including an attack by two gunmen on a Sydney Hanukkah celebration in December that left 15 dead.

Lord was questioned about a complaint made by survivor Arsen Ostrovsky about a video posted on YouTube. Ostrovsky was attacked online after an image showing blood streaming from a wound in his head was posted on X two hours after he was shot.

Lord said the decision to allow the video to remain on YouTube had been reviewed at “quite senior levels.”

“We have spent a lot of time thinking about where we draw the line and we continue to re-evaluate where we are doing that,” Lord said.

Richard Lancaster, the lawyer leading the inquiry’s evidence, referred to a transcript of the video to avoid showing the images in public.

Four men appear on split screen saying Ostrovsky’s bleeding head appeared “very crisis actor-ish” and mentioned “makeup.” They also describe him as an “intelligence asset” who had a “degree in theater.”

The video also describes Ostrovsky as a Zionist and claims the massacre was a “false flag operation.” Police allege father and son shooters Sajid and Naveed Akram were inspired by the Islamic State group.

Lancaster told Lord the video remaining online demonstrated a “really serious deficiency” in YouTube’s hate speech guidelines.

Lord replied that she appreciated Lancaster’s “feedback.”

YouTube told Australia’s online safety regulator three days after the massacre that the platform was “focused on ensuring Australians and all users around the world have access to high quality information about the tragic events,” Lord said.

Ostrovsky told the inquiry last month that he had been targeted by online hate, abuse, vilification and AI manipulation since he suffered the minor head wound on Dec. 14.

The inquiry was then shown an AI-generated image of Ostrovsky apparently laughing as someone applied fake blood to his head.

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‘Very irresponsible’: National Firearms Association VP blasts mainstream media coverage of Montreal shooter

On Friday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Blair Hagen from the National Firearms Association spoke out against mainstream media outlets using the recent Montreal shooting as a tool to push political narratives.

While the shooter’s manifesto contained a multitude of references to former left-wing dictators like Mao and Stalin — along with lengthy rants filled with explicit antisemitism, anti-Zionist rhetoric, and communist ideology — mainstream media outlets appeared to focus almost exclusively on his hatred of women.

“Very shortly afterwards, and of course the killer’s manifesto became public fairly quickly, mainstream media outlets chose to go with a certain narrative, and it’s one we’re pretty familiar with,” Hagen said.

“That was the elements of misogyny, the hatred of women, that were part of that manifesto. But it was very, very stark that they were obviously ignoring the other parts. That manifesto was a toxic soup of really harmful ideologies and attitudes, and the fact that mainstream media and certain special interest groups would choose to ignore that to advance their own narratives certainly struck us as very, very irresponsible and something we wanted to speak out on,” he continued.

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FBI Makes Two More ARRESTS in Plot to Turn Trump’s White House UFC Event Into a Mass-Casualty Attack

A total of seven domestic terrorists are now charged in conspiracy to commit murder at the historic freedom celebration on the South Lawn.

Two additional radical men have been arrested since Friday in connection with a chilling plot to attack the June 14 UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House.

The event, a star-studded, patriotic celebration of American freedom featuring President Donald Trump, UFC President Dana White, and top fighters on the South Lawn, was targeted by radicals intent on creating mass casualties.

William Lee Spartacus Falkner was arrested midday Friday, June 19. Falkner, of Belfair, Washington, is charged by criminal complaint in the Western District of Washington with conspiracy to commit murder.

He appeared in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. Court documents indicate Falkner is trained in drone operations and discussed using drones armed with explosives in online communications with co-conspirators.

Jordan W. Rincker, 28, of St. Joseph, Missouri, was arrested Sunday, June 21. Rincker is charged by criminal complaint in the Western District of Missouri with conspiracy to commit murder.

He appeared in U.S. District Court in Kansas City. Prosecutors allege Rincker acted as a key logistical and financial supporter, including taking $1,200 from another charged individual to help fund and arm members of the plot.

These arrests bring the total to seven individuals now facing federal charges in the conspiracy. Last week, five others were arrested and charged:

  • Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio;
  • Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, California;
  • Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, California;
  • Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Missouri; and
  • Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska.

According to the Justice Department and court documents, the group conspired to carry out a multi-phase terror attack on the packed UFC Freedom 250 event.

Their plan allegedly involved deploying explosive-laden drones over the North side of the venue to sow chaos and force an evacuation. Snipers were then to be positioned to fire on “high-value targets,” including government officials and politicians, as crowds fled the South Lawn. Some reports indicate additional plans to storm the White House grounds.

The FBI disrupted the plot days before the historic event after learning of the threat around June 10. A concerned parent reportedly alerted authorities, helping thwart what could have been a devastating attack on a patriotic gathering celebrating America’s 250th anniversary and President Trump’s milestone birthday.

Alvarez, who went by the name “Shepherd” in an encrypted messaging app, was allegedly “responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the planned attack, based on conversation excerpts in June,” according to the FBI and Department of Justice.

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Venezuelan Illegal Alien Former Illinois School Teacher Arrested by ICE After Driving Tren de Aragua Gangsters to Chicago House Party Massacre That Killed Three and Wounded Five

A 32-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant who was teaching in an Illinois classroom has been arrested by ICE for allegedly acting as the driver and getaway accomplice for two Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang members during a brutal December 2024 mass shooting in Chicago that left three people dead and five others wounded.

Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti, a Venezuelan national with dual Italian citizenship, entered the United States in October 2021 under the Visa Waiver Program but overstayed her visa.

She was taken into ICE custody on May 13, 2026, and is currently being held at the Grayson County Detention Center in Leitchfield, Kentucky, pending removal from the country, Fox News reported.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Occhipinti drove two alleged TDA gang members, Ricardo Granadillo Padilla and Edward Martinez Cermeno, to a house party in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood on December 2, 2024.

The gunmen opened fire on the crowd. Three people were killed and five were wounded. Federal authorities say she then helped the shooters flee the scene of the slaughter.

Chicago Police arrested Occhipinti just three days later, on December 5, 2024, after finding multiple weapons in her vehicle. But because Chicago and Illinois are militant sanctuary jurisdictions, she was released without ICE ever being notified, despite the obvious public safety threat tied to a triple homicide.

The two actual shooters were eventually deported. One had even been released from ICE custody earlier by a federal judge due to prosecutorial issues. Occhipinti remained free in the community and was reportedly working as a teacher at a school in the Chicago suburb of Elgin until HSI agents finally tracked her down months later.

Illinois officials have refused to disclose to DHS which school employed her.

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Revealed: One of the Austin Shooting Spree Suspects is an Illegal with an ICE Hold

The Gateway Pundit reported that over the weekend, residents in the Austin, Texas area were asked to shelter in place amid reports of multiple shootings.

The Austin Police Department says at least three suspects were involved in as many as 12 shootings since Saturday.

Two of the shootings were at fire stations in South Austin.

At least four people were reported injured.

Police announced that 17-year-old Cristian Mondragon has been charged with six felonies, with more charges possible, including: Two counts of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle; Two counts of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle; Theft of firearms; Evading arrest with a motor vehicle.

The two other suspects are minors and will be processed through a different judicial system.

While in court, prosecutors noted that Mondragon is not a U.S. citizen and currently has an ICE hold.

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School Shootings NOT the Number One Cause of Child Death – Statistical Nonsense Debunked

A European friend approached me today, asking about guns in the US, saying, “There are so many guns in your country. It will take a long time to collect them all and get rid of them.” She was shocked when I responded, “We don’t want to get rid of them.”

After she got over her immediate horror and confusion, she asked, “But aren’t you afraid of school shootings?” I said that I was not, while also making it clear that I opposed them. “Most Americans are against school shootings,” I added.

Then she said, “I read that school shootings are the number one cause of death of children in the US.”

I responded, “I believe you believe you read that, but you didn’t. No one is actually making that claim. Mainstream media and anti-gun lobbies are playing with statistics to make you think that is what you read.”

This or similar statements about school shooting deaths are now repeated constantly, not only in personal conversations but also on television talk shows and in the talking points of the anti-gun lobby. The claim, of course, is complete nonsense.

On average, school shootings result in fewer than 40 deaths per year, and not all of the victims are children. There was an uptick during the Biden administration and after COVID, but from 2000 through roughly 2020, the average was closer to six deaths per year.

And this is why no serious authority has actually made such an egregious claim. Rather, headlines are designed to make people believe that is what they read. The actual claim, according to CDC data, is that firearm injuries were the leading cause of death among children and teens ages 1 to 19 in 2020 and 2021.

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Accusations grow over ChatGPT’s possible role in Florida State U. shooting

Artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT is facing multiple accusations that it is liable for a mass shooting at Florida State University.

Both the state’s attorney general and the family of a slain university worker accuse the platform, which is owned by OpenAI, of aiding in the April 17, 2025 shooting that killed two people and wounded six others.

Attorney General James Uthmeier says his office is “demanding answers on OpenAI’s activities that have hurt kids, endangered Americans, and facilitated the recent FSU mass shooting.”

“Wrongdoers must be held accountable,” Uthemeier said in an X post.

Similarly, a federal lawsuit, filed on May 11, accuses the platform of not recognizing red flags in messages sent by Phoenix Ikner, who is facing a trial in October for the shootings. The estate of slain Aramark supervisor Tiru Chabba similarly accuses ChatGPT of complicity in the killing.

Florida State University deferred comment to the Attorney General’s office, who then referred The Fix to its April 21 news release. 

The release states: “Florida law states that anyone who aids, abets, or counsels someone in the commission of a crime, and that crime is committed or attempted, may be considered a principal to the crime. The ‘aider and abettor’ is just as responsible for the crime as the perpetrator.” 

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Shooters And Motives Revealed In San Diego Mosque Shooting That Killed Three

The two young alleged gunmen who descended upon a San Diego Islamic facility on Monday — killing three men and themselves — have been identified, along with early indications of their motives. Police sources have told multiple outlets that 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Velasquez — driven by hate — scrawled racist themes on their weapons and carried a gas can emblazoned with a Nazi SS sticker. One of them left a suicide note emphasizing “racial pride.” 

The attack was carried out on the Islamic Center of San Diego, which is roughly eight miles north of downtown and is home to the county’s largest mosque, and Bright Horizon Academy, a K-12 Islamic school. While the shooting began around 11:40 am, one of the shooter’s mothers contacted police at 9:42 am. She told them her son was missing, that he was suicidal, and that her firearms and her car were gone. She also reported that he was with a companion, both of them dressed in camouflage clothing. Police tried to track them down using license plate readers, at one point responding to a possible matching plate near a shopping mall. Other officers were dispatched to a high school that one of the alleged shooters attended. 

Police say that, after leaving the Islamic center, the alleged young murderers fired shots at a landscaper two blocks away, with one of the rounds grazing his helmet. He wasn’t wounded. Soon after, the two were found dead inside a white BMW another block away from the Islamic center, having apparently died of self-inflicted gunshots. Inside the vehicle, investigators found some type of anti-Islamic writing. In addition, the BMW contained a gasoline can that had a Nazi SS sticker on it, and police say unspecified “hate speech” was written on their firearms. They haven’t described the weapons yet.  

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San Diego mosque shooter Cain Clark identified as former high school wrestler

The alleged gunmen in a shooting rampage that left three people dead outside a San Diego mosque have been identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Velasquez, according to a law enforcement source.

At least one of the suspects took a weapon from his parents’ home and left a suicide note that talked about racial pride, a law enforcement source told The Post.

Clark attended Madison High School and was a standout wrestler, according to the school’s social media page. His grandfather, David Clark, 78, said: ”We’re very sorry for what happened. We know as much as you do. It’s a shock.”

Clark and Velasquez were found dead inside a BMW from self-inflicted gunshot wounds only a few blocks from the Islamic Center of San Diego.

Anti-Islamic writings were found in the suspects’ vehicle and “hate speech” was written on the firearms used in the shooting, according to the source.

A shotgun and gas can with an “SS” sticker on the side were located at the scene where the gunmen’s bodies were discovered.

The “SS” sticker appears to represent the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary organization led by Heinrich Himmler under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany.

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Woke Judge Admits “Taking A Chance” On Violent Criminal… Who Then Went On Shooting Spree

A Massachusetts judge openly confessed in court that she knew she was rolling the dice by giving a light sentence to a career criminal with a 20-year rap sheet packed with violence, guns, and assault convictions.

She did it anyway. Now Tyler Brown is back in custody after opening fire with 50 to 60 rounds on a busy Cambridge roadway, critically injuring two innocent drivers.

The shocking audio, released this week, comes straight from Brown’s 2020 sentencing hearing after he fired 13 rounds at Boston police officers. Prosecutors had pushed for 10 to 12 years behind bars. The judge gave him just five. He walked out on parole in March 2025.

In the newly surfaced clip shared on X, the judge tells Brown directly:

“I do realize I’m kind of taking a chance on you — when people stand up, police, experienced police officers, experienced probation officers, and they tell me this guy is a danger to the community.”

She went on to acknowledge she could not predict the future but was still willing to release him, saying she hoped her “intuitions” would prove correct and that Brown would not “endanger other peoples’ lives as you have in the past.” 

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